Walter Harper, Alaska Native Son

Informationen zum Autor Mary F. Ehrlander is a professor emeritus of history and Arctic and Northern studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She won the 2018 Alaska Historical Society James H. Drucker Alaska Historian of the Year Award. Ehrlander is the coauthor of Hospital and Haven: The Life and Work of Grafton and Clara Burke in Northern Alaska (Nebraska, 2023) and author of Equal Educational Opportunity: Brown’s Elusive Mandate. Klappentext Mary F. Ehrlander is the director of Arctic and Northern Studies and a professor of history at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.¿She is the author of Equal Educational Opportunity:¿Brown’s Elusive Mandate and coauthor of Education Reform in the American States. ¿ Zusammenfassung Mary F. Ehrlander illuminates the remarkable life of Walter Harper, a traditionally raised Koyukon Athabascan of Irish Athabascan descent who was a leader of his people during his brief life. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations     List of Maps     Preface     Introduction     Chapter 1. Childhood and Adolescence     Chapter 2. On the River and on the Trail with Archdeacon Stuck     Chapter 3. Ascent of Denali     Chapter 4. Mount Hermon School     Chapter 5. Return to Alaska     Chapter 6. The Winter Circuit     Chapter 7. Summer and Fall 1918     Epilogue: Harper’s Legacy     Notes     Bibliography     Index

Product details

• Authors: Mary F Ehrlander, Mary F. Ehrlander
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9780803295902
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-9590-2
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Sport > Other sports disciplines; Non-fiction book > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology